``Community notes'' that make tweet fact checks with the power of all Twitter users are now available worldwide including Japan



Twitter has released a ` `community note '' function that allows users to leave ``notes'' in tweets that may cause misunderstanding, and to perform fact checks by evaluating each other.

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https://twitter.github.io/communitynotes/




Community Notes is a feature that allows users who participate in community notes to leave notes explaining the context of tweets that may cause misunderstandings. When a user who participates in a community note attaches a note to a tweet, the note is first published in the community note and evaluated among the participants. The one note that the algorithm determines is the most 'helpful' will be made public to all users and will be attached to potentially misleading tweets.

You can check the notes that are actually judged to be 'useful' from the link below.

Community Notes / Twitter
https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/rated_helpful



An example of a tweet with a note is the following New York Post post. The New York Post publishes a link to its own article with the headline ``Scientist who worked at Wuhan lab says COVID is a man-made virus,'' but at the bottom of the tweet reads, ``Browsed. I've added background information that users may find useful to other users.' This means that the participants of the community notes fact-checked this tweet. Click this part to view the details of the note.



When you display details, it looks like this. A community note user wrote, ``This headline is false. This scientist worked for the EcoHealth Alliance in New York, not Wuhan. See his reply to this tweet,'' and another tweet. A link to is also attached.



Quoted is a tweet by scientist Andrew Huff himself, who is featured in the article of the New York Post. Mr. Huff said, 'I worked at the EcoHealth Alliance instead of WIV (Wuhan Virus Research Institute),' which ensures the authenticity of the note.




Anyone with a Twitter account can participate in Community Notes, but they must meet a few criteria . The criteria are `` not having recently received a notification about Twitter's rule violation '' , ``at least six months have passed since the account was created'', and ` ` the phone number has been authenticated' '. Furthermore, regarding the phone number, it is set as a condition that `` it must be from a reliable telephone company '' and `` it must not be linked with other community note accounts ' '.

To actually participate, first click the link below and click 'Join Community Note'. Since it was originally a function called ' Birdwatch ', the URL is 'join-birdwatch'.

Twitter
https://twitter.com/i/flow/join-birdwatch



Confirm that all items are checked and click 'Next'.



If you agree with three things, `` Contribute to deepening understanding '', `` Act in good faith '', `` Act cooperatively even if you disagree '', then click `` Next ''.



If you agree to publish your post, click Agree and Done.



Press 'OK' to finish. When it's ready, you'll receive a notification with instructions on how to use it.



In the community note, it means that the post will be made public, but in reality, the poster is given

an alias , that is, a pseudonym, so it is not associated with the actual Twitter account. It is expected that this will reduce the bias of 'who evaluated it' and make it possible to evaluate tweets without pressure or retaliation from a specific person.

However, since the Community Note also aims to ensure proper accountability, all participants have a profile page. It is possible to check past notes and evaluations from this page. Click the note's menu icon to see it in action.



Click 'Note details'.



Click View profile.



Here's what the profile page looks like. The alias 'Carefree Watermelon Penguin' and a list of notes created in the past are displayed.



Twitter explains that the notes that are open to all users are not simply determined by the number of evaluations. In addition, Twitter is taking measures to reduce organizational evaluations, and also refers to the evaluation trends of each participant to seek diversity of viewpoints. For example, it can be said that the tendency of participants who evaluate the same note in the same way is similar, but it can be said that participants who evaluate differently have different viewpoints. If participants with different viewpoints evaluate the same note in the same way, the evaluation can be an indicator that the note is useful.

Community notes have a repository published on

GitHub , and all data such as 'notes' and 'evaluation data' are published to increase transparency.

Download data / Twitter
https://twitter.com/i/birdwatch/download-data



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